ArcGIS Server Documentation Improvements

Summary

Since the release of ArcGIS Server 9.2, our goal has been to incrementally release more help content. We have been making a number of improvements and additions to the ArcGIS Server help, and we will continue to add new topics. This document provides a sampling of some of the topics that have been added to the ArcGIS Server documentation since the initial release of Version 9.2.

Description

In late 2006, ESRI released ArcGIS Server 9.2 with comparatively basic documentation, particularly for developers. We knew users would need additional information on methods and best practices for implementing ArcGIS Server, and that this new documentation would need to be relevant to how users would deploy ArcGIS Server in their organizations.

Since the release, we have incrementally added more help content and made a number of improvements and additions to the ArcGIS Server Help Online. We will continue to add new topics, especially as we better understand how users apply ArcGIS Server and the GIS community develops new workflows.

The following is a sampling of the topics that have been added to the ArcGIS Server documentation since the initial release of version 9.2:

Extended topics on how to publish ArcGIS services from your desktop using ArcCatalog and ArcMap, for example: